When you re in the computer consulting business, you re selling your personality, you re selling your charisma, and you re certainly selling your business knowledge. Most specifically, however, at the end of the day, you are selling your time. You can t afford to waste it. You need to be able to account for every hour that you spend, regardless of whether it s billable, whether it s sales function, whether it s prospecting, or whether it s administrative. In this article you ll learn how to determine whether a service call is a good use of your time. If you re looking at how to weed out the time wasters to work more efficiently, you need to know what their sense of urgency is as soon as you hear from them: over the phone, email, or in person. Maybe it s a server down issue that s crippling 27 workers and completely destroying the productivity of the company. That s a pretty strong sense of urgency. Or maybe it is something more mundane that they don t seem that excited or concerned about, like maybe a link is not working between a salesperson s gold mine and a PDA. Something that affects one person in the company isn t be a big deal. So, figuring out their sense of...

When people think of cancer, multiple myeloma MM is not likely to be top of mind. Although it is a rare blood cancer, this aggressive, rapidly progressive disease is the second most common type of blood cancer in the U.S., disproportionately affecting African Americans and the elderly in particular. In fact, MM is one of the top 10 causes of cancer deaths among African Americans. Studies show African Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with the disease versus Caucasians, and recent statistics indicate both increasing incidence and younger age of onset. Multiple myeloma causes certain white blood cells, normally responsible for fighting disease, to be overproduced. The buildup of these abnormal cells, known as myeloma cells, causes the growth of tumors that may spread to multiple sites in the body, hence the term multiple myeloma. The disease occurs more frequently in men than in women. Stem cell transplant, a procedure in which the patient receives stem cells from the blood of a donor to build up the immune system, combined with high-dose chemotherapy, has long been considered by many to be the most effective treatment for MM. However, approximately half...

Five thousand years ago, people were still roaming the earth as nomads. They carried along their few precious possessions in their hands and on their backs. They hunted and gathered food at random. Then came the Agricultural Revolution: people settled down and got attached - physically, emotionally and legally - to specific plots of land. They grew their food in accordance with a pre-meditated plan. They domesticated animals. This new pattern of human existence led to enormous shifts in demographic patterns. It took yet another 4500 years before the dawn of the next Revolution: the Industrial one. Its main achievement was to separate the raw materials and the means of production from the land. It also created the need to have an educated workforce. This Revolution brought in its wake the formation of cities which supplied workers to mega-factories , mass education systems and leisure. For the first time in history, people began to have free time on their hands. Numerous organizations, firms and institutions sprang up in an effort to satisfy the insatiable desire for entertainment and the necessity to cope with the ever growing complexity of social and economic...

Are you walking on stress free feet. Make sure you take a little stress out of your busy life by taking care of your feet with these 3 simple, yet essential steps. Everyone is living a fast paced life these days. With all the stress and things to handle, do we always take the time out to care about our feet. More often than not, the answer to that questions is no. We are always on our feet, and yet we neglect to give them the care they need, which if given would reduce a little bit of their stress from our every day lives. This article lists 3 simple and fast ways for us to care for our feet, making them look better and feel better. Exfoliate the stress our of those toes Hard skin accumulates naturally on different parts on the body, especially at the base of our feet. When too much hard skin accumulates, it sometimes also becomes quite painful to wear certain shoes and make certain moves. To prevent too much hard skin for accumulating it is important that we exfoliate the feet with a gentle scrub. Different kinds and brand of scrubs are available to use, made especially for the feet and which come in different scents. Choose your favourite scent to relax yourself...

Throughout history Christmas has mostly been a time of great celebration and fun. Accept for a short period in the 17th century when Christmas was banned. Today we can draw on celebrations of not only the past but create new ways of celebrating in the modern world where family can come together and enjoy quality and fun time together. Here are some fun and creative ways to celebrate together as a family this coming festive Christmas season without spending a lot of money. Discover three fun tips for things to do as a family to get you all interacting together and creating warm and lasting memories of a fun and cherished Christmas: 1. Watch Christmas movies together: at the beginning of November get each family member to do some research to come up with 10 Christmas movies they would like to watch during the festive season. Get them to choose 5 modern time movies and 5 old-time movies. Then give each person 1 week to check out the local library, a video shop or do a Google search on the internet for Christmas movies. Once they have their choice write each choice onto a strip of paper and put it into a hat. Each family member takes it in turns to pull out one strip...